Vietnamese Spring Rolls Recipe
Healthy, light, and delicious Vietnamese Spring Rolls
Servings: 10 Spring Rolls
Calories: 94kcal
Ingredients
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 10 oz cooked shrimp
- 6.75 oz rice sticks noodles (½ a package)
- 5 Romaine lettuce leaves (ribs removed, cut in quarters)
- 1 Persian cucumbers (julienned)
- 10 mini carrots (julienned)
- 3 serrano peppers (optional)
- handful mint or basil leaves
- 10 spring rolls rice paper
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of water to a rolling boil and stir in salt. Add shrimp and cook for one minute, then remove shrimp with a slotted spoon.
- Bring water back to a boil and add noodles. Cook for five minutes. Remove noodles and rinse under cold running water, and drain. Cut into managable size (approx. 8" sections).
- Julienne carrots and cucumbers, remove ribs from lettuce and cut into fourths. Slice serranos, if using.
- Set up a work area with noodles, shrimp, veggies, and herbs.
- Rinse rice paper under running water on both sides, for a few seconds. You can also dip in a pot of cold water for a few seconds. Place wet rice paper on a cutting board, plate, or damp washcloth.
- Add lettuce leaves, followed by carrots, and/or cucumbers to the bottom of the rice paper. Leave space on each sides to fold over the filling.
- Top with a handful of noodles, shrimp, and a few mint or basil leave. Add serranos, if using.
- Carefully pull the bottom of the wrapper up and over the filling until you're half way up the wrapper. Fold both sides in (similar to rolling a burrito). Continue rolling up until fully rolled. Repeat with the remaining ingredients.
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Notes
- Protein in the form of shrimp, chicken, steak, or tofu
- Lettuce (butter lettuce if possible, which is soft and easy to roll up) or Romaine
- Baby spinach
- Vegetables, including carrots, cucumbers, avocado, bell pepper, celery, and scallions.
- Herbs (mint, basil, cilantro, and dill)
- Heat (Serranos, jalapeños, or habaneros if you dare)!
- This recipe is super flexible! If you want to leave out the shrimp, it's easy to do! If you are a vegetarian, replace the shrimp with additional vegetables (purple cabbage, avocados, green onions, and julienned bell peppers).
- Additionally, consider adding more herbs, noodles, and seasoned, sautéed, and cooled tofu. Sesame oil would be a great option for sautéing the tofu.
Nutrition
Serving: 1roll | Calories: 94kcal | Carbohydrates: 18g | Protein: 18g | Fat: 0g | Saturated Fat: 0g | Cholesterol: 43mg | Sodium: 300mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 4g
